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Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa’s Mission: Expose the CIA’s Shameless, Continuing Crimes
01 Feb 2023
The CIA director recently visited Libya, a state that was destroyed by the US. History shows that the CIA is never up to anything good in Africa.
Stephen Wilson
Answering to Martin Sostre’s Ghost
01 Feb 2023
Martin Sostre (1923-2015) was a political prisoner, jailhouse lawyer, and Black anarchist of Puerto Rican descent. After being released from prison, he opened a radical Afro-Asian Book Shop in Buffalo, NY, which was later raided by the FBI, state troopers, and the police. He has been an inspiration…
Erica Caines
Black University, White Power: Howard University Covers for US Imperialism
01 Feb 2023
The announcement of a $90 million Air Force contract making Howard University a University Affiliated Research Center is a first for an HBCU. Now Howard has joined other universities in creating a pipeline to the military industrial complex and US imperialism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Miss Major and Toshio Meronek’s “Miss Major Speaks”
01 Feb 2023
This week’s featured authors are Miss Major and Toshio Meronek. Their book is Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: J.T. Roane’s Book, “Dark Agoras”
01 Feb 2023
This week’s featured author is J.T. Roane. His book is Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Tennessee’s Tonton Macoute? Or, rotten Orchard called Capitalist State Machine?
01 Feb 2023
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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
01 Feb 2023
The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
Jacqueline Luqman
Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiWarSoWhite
08 Feb 2023
Leftists, especially the Black left, do not share common cause with everyone who wants to end U.S involvement in Ukraine. The politics of some who call themselves anti-war cannot be ignored.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Howard University: Every Black Thing and Its Opposite, Kwame Ture
01 Feb 2023
Kwame Ture reminds us that the Black university is a place of contradictions – and a potential site of struggle.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The US Continues Escalating in Ukraine
01 Feb 2023
The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the unintended consequences of their actions.